Tuesday, October 5, 2010

poem of the day 10.05.10

candy

i have a dumb facea public facethis kid sees it every dayand he keeps tryingto sell me candyout of a catalog

it’s for his school

he sees my faceand he begins wavingthe catalog at me

i have already humored him oncelooking through the catalogwhile he watchedmy face lookingthrough the catalogat all of the picturesof chocolate and candiespresented so elaboratelythat the confections just looked likedull and tasteless sculptures

i told the kid that i hadno money that daythat he could catch me the next day

but of coursei was broke that day too

every other timethat he’s waved that catalog at mei’ve told him that i’m too busy to look at the candy

i tell him to come back tomorrow

i have no clue why i can’t be honest with this kid

it’s almost become an obsceneritual the way i duck him nowgoing this way or thatout of my waygiving him seedy sideways glanceswhenever he starts wavingthat fucking catalog at me

i’m trying my best to avoid himin total right now

i hide in my officewhenever he comes in

i’ll be doing this until october ninth

that’s when the candy ordersare due in at schoolwhich gives mea good two weeks of freedombefore the christmas gift catalogsare scheduled to come out.

Nice poem. Our schools have them trying to sell jewelry out of a catalog! It's cheap stuff, but still...One of the many reasons, I'm not fond of chillins...I know it's not their fault, but I don't care about that. I am a sucker for the cookies though.

Lynne...you're doing just fine with the poems. by "cart that stuff" i brought the things home and begged my mom to sell at work.

Pat...i broke down last year and bought these cheese crackers from some kid who comes in the library. she never gave them to me, and i was out $9. that's over the cost of a 12 pack of Natural Light to a guy like me.

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